‘Ghosts go Boo’

With Halloween approaching, students at Platteville Elementary School cooked up some eerie concoctions.

Mixing a little bit of rhyming with a lot of good timing, the third-, fourth- and fifth-grade students created Halloween poetry full of pumpkins, witches brew and goblins.

Judges selected three winners from each grade to receive prizes: a free pass to Fritzler’s Corn Maize and Fun Center donated by Glen Fritzler, a Platteville Dragon T-shirt donated by K&K Laser Creations or a pencil and sharpener. In honor of the holiday, here are the first-place poems:

ROMELIO SICKLER, THIRD GRADE

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The ghosts say Boo!

The headstone’s all cracked,

The black cats scratch,

Bags get snatched.

Pumpkins light bright,

It’s Halloween night.

The Mummies go Woo!

The Zombies go Mmmm,

The cars go Boom

Because the ghosts go Boo!!

EMILY HURLA, FOURTH GRADE

Roses are red, some ghosts are blue.

If you don’t move, they won’t say Boo!

And if you do, you’ll say… Whoo!

Vampires suck blood.

If they get you, you’ll go … Thud!

Cats are black.

If you see one, you’ll be scared and want to go back.

A bat has big yellow and red fangs.

In the haunted tree he hangs.

So, Happy Trick or Treating.

I hope in the streets, it’s not goblins that you are meeting.

KAILI BRAZELL, FIFTH GRADE

There are goblins on Halloween.

They are usually very mean.

When I saw Frankenstein.

I thought he broke his spine.

I tried the witches brew.

It tasted just like stew.

It was very munchy,

Just like bones are crunchy.

My breath started to smell.

I thought it was a spell.

I saw a spooky skull.

It popped out of a bowl.

The mice started to creep.

I finally fell asleep.

The winners of the Platteville Elementary Halloween poetry contest were: